Missing Mrs. Lowry: The Billionaire’s Wakeup Call

Chapter 104

The office was a quiet sanctuary. Alton’s slender, gold–watch adorned wrist extended and handed over a platinum business card bearing his private number.

Megan accepted it gently. After a long, searching look, she asked softly, “Why help me? I thought you’d side with Sullivan.”

Alton didn’t respond, instead leaning back in his chair and taking a contemplative draw from his cigar.

Truth be told, he didn’t know why as well. But if pressed for an answer, it might have been the memory from the hospital when he saw the shocking lines etched into Megan’s wrists, a painful echo of his own mother’s scars.

The difference, though, was stark. His mother had longed for death, and so she left.

Megan, on the other hand, clung to life.

Maybe it was something that lit up a spark of his compassion, he thought.

As Megan left, the business card was almost soaked with the sweat of her clenched palm.

Returning to Sullivan’s side, she was the picture of success to the world, but behind closed doors, it was a different story. Yet she rarely allowed herself to entertain thoughts of leaving Sullivan. She didn’t dare. But now, amid the despair, a sliver of hope seemed to beckon.

She stepped out of the elevator at the lobby.

the revolving doors, to her surprise, she saw Begonia. Separated by a pane of

one entering.

fully aware of who Begonia was there for. She actually knew

wife, but

never

light and shadow playing

smile filled with gratitude and a tinge of regret. If it weren’t for Sullivan, she could have at least called

life had other

save her, while she, in turn, sought to

of the law firm, a

as she looked at another man. Her eyes betrayed a clear sense of loss and

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harbored feelings for someone

nature of those feelings, they were there, and

looked at him with that